. A dictionary of birds . 924 SUN-BITTERN Surinamische Sonnenreyger, Ardea helias, the first author tonotice this form was Fermin, whose account of it, under the nameof Oiseau de Soleil, was published at Amsterdam in 1769 ( de Surinam, ii. p. 192), but was vague and meagre. In 1772,however, it was satisfactorily figured and described in RoziersObservations sur la Plujsique, &c. (v. pt. 1, p. 212, pi. 1), as the PetitPaon des roseaux—by which name it was known in Cayenne.■■ Afew years later DAubenton figured it in his well-known series (PLenl. 782), and then in 1781 came BufFon {H. N. O
. A dictionary of birds . 924 SUN-BITTERN Surinamische Sonnenreyger, Ardea helias, the first author tonotice this form was Fermin, whose account of it, under the nameof Oiseau de Soleil, was published at Amsterdam in 1769 ( de Surinam, ii. p. 192), but was vague and meagre. In 1772,however, it was satisfactorily figured and described in RoziersObservations sur la Plujsique, &c. (v. pt. 1, p. 212, pi. 1), as the PetitPaon des roseaux—by which name it was known in Cayenne.■■ Afew years later DAubenton figured it in his well-known series (PLenl. 782), and then in 1781 came BufFon {H. N. Ois. viii. pp. 169,170, pi. xiv.), who, calling it Le Caurale ^ ou petit Paon des roses,. Sun-Bittern {Eurypyga helias). announced it as hitherto undescribed, and placed it among the the same year appeared the above-cited paper by Pallas, who,notwithstanding his remote abode, was better informed as to itshistory than his great contemporary, whose ignorance, real oraffected, of his fellow-countrymans priority in the field is inexplic-able ; and it must have been by inadvertence that, writing roses for roseaux, Buffon turned the colonial name from one that hada good meaning into nonsense. In 1783 Boddaert, equally ignorant ^ This figure and description were repeated in tlie later issue of tliis work in1777 (i. pp. 679-681, pi. 1). ^ The name, he says, was intended to mean Jidlc a queue, that is, a tailedRail! SURF-BIRD 925 of what Pallas had done, called it Scolopax Solaris,^ and in referringit to that genus he was followed by Latham [Gen. Synops. iii. p. 156),by whom it was introduced to English readers as the Caurale within a dozen years this bird was r
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